kafka_consumer

Kafka Consumer Input Plugin

The Kafka consumer plugin reads from Kafka and creates metrics using one of the supported input data formats.

Service Input

This plugin is a service input. Normal plugins gather metrics determined by the interval setting. Service plugins start a service to listens and waits for metrics or events to occur. Service plugins have two key differences from normal plugins:

1. The global or plugin specific interval setting may not apply
2. The CLI options of --test, --test-wait, and --once may not produce output for this plugin

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Secret-store support

This plugin supports secrets from secret-stores for the sasl_username, sasl_password and sasl_access_token option. See the secret-store documentation for more details on how to use them.

Configuration

# Read metrics from Kafka topics
[[inputs.kafka_consumer]]
  ## Kafka brokers.
  brokers = ["localhost:9092"]

  ## Set the minimal supported Kafka version. Should be a string contains
  ## 4 digits in case if it is 0 version and 3 digits for versions starting
  ## from 1.0.0 separated by dot. This setting enables the use of new
  ## Kafka features and APIs.  Must be 0.10.2.0(used as default) or greater.
  ## Please, check the list of supported versions at
  ## https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/Shopify/sarama#SupportedVersions
  ##   ex: kafka_version = "2.6.0"
  ##   ex: kafka_version = "0.10.2.0"
  # kafka_version = "0.10.2.0"

  ## Topics to consume.
  topics = ["telegraf"]

  ## Topic regular expressions to consume.  Matches will be added to topics.
  ## Example: topic_regexps = [ "*test", "metric[0-9A-z]*" ]
  # topic_regexps = [ ]

  ## When set this tag will be added to all metrics with the topic as the value.
  # topic_tag = ""

  ## The list of Kafka message headers that should be pass as metric tags
  ## works only for Kafka version 0.11+, on lower versions the message headers
  ## are not available
  # msg_headers_as_tags = []

  ## The name of kafka message header which value should override the metric name.
  ## In case when the same header specified in current option and in msg_headers_as_tags
  ## option, it will be excluded from the msg_headers_as_tags list.
  # msg_header_as_metric_name = ""

  ## Optional Client id
  # client_id = "Telegraf"

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # enable_tls = false
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  ## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false

  ## Period between keep alive probes.
  ## Defaults to the OS configuration if not specified or zero.
  # keep_alive_period = "15s"

  ## SASL authentication credentials.  These settings should typically be used
  ## with TLS encryption enabled
  # sasl_username = "kafka"
  # sasl_password = "secret"

  ## Optional SASL:
  ## one of: OAUTHBEARER, PLAIN, SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512, GSSAPI
  ## (defaults to PLAIN)
  # sasl_mechanism = ""

  ## used if sasl_mechanism is GSSAPI
  # sasl_gssapi_service_name = ""
  # ## One of: KRB5_USER_AUTH and KRB5_KEYTAB_AUTH
  # sasl_gssapi_auth_type = "KRB5_USER_AUTH"
  # sasl_gssapi_kerberos_config_path = "/"
  # sasl_gssapi_realm = "realm"
  # sasl_gssapi_key_tab_path = ""
  # sasl_gssapi_disable_pafxfast = false

  ## used if sasl_mechanism is OAUTHBEARER
  # sasl_access_token = ""

  ## SASL protocol version.  When connecting to Azure EventHub set to 0.
  # sasl_version = 1

  # Disable Kafka metadata full fetch
  # metadata_full = false

  ## Name of the consumer group.
  # consumer_group = "telegraf_metrics_consumers"

  ## Compression codec represents the various compression codecs recognized by
  ## Kafka in messages.
  ##  0 : None
  ##  1 : Gzip
  ##  2 : Snappy
  ##  3 : LZ4
  ##  4 : ZSTD
  # compression_codec = 0
  ## Initial offset position; one of "oldest" or "newest".
  # offset = "oldest"

  ## Consumer group partition assignment strategy; one of "range", "roundrobin" or "sticky".
  # balance_strategy = "range"

  ## Maximum number of retries for metadata operations including
  ## connecting. Sets Sarama library's Metadata.Retry.Max config value. If 0 or
  ## unset, use the Sarama default of 3,
  # metadata_retry_max = 0

  ## Type of retry backoff. Valid options: "constant", "exponential"
  # metadata_retry_type = "constant"

  ## Amount of time to wait before retrying. When metadata_retry_type is
  ## "constant", each retry is delayed this amount. When "exponential", the
  ## first retry is delayed this amount, and subsequent delays are doubled. If 0
  ## or unset, use the Sarama default of 250 ms
  # metadata_retry_backoff = 0

  ## Maximum amount of time to wait before retrying when metadata_retry_type is
  ## "exponential". Ignored for other retry types. If 0, there is no backoff
  ## limit.
  # metadata_retry_max_duration = 0

  ## Strategy for making connection to kafka brokers. Valid options: "startup",
  ## "defer". If set to "defer" the plugin is allowed to start before making a
  ## connection. This is useful if the broker may be down when telegraf is
  ## started, but if there are any typos in the broker setting, they will cause
  ## connection failures without warning at startup
  # connection_strategy = "startup"

  ## Maximum length of a message to consume, in bytes (default 0/unlimited);
  ## larger messages are dropped
  max_message_len = 1000000

  ## Max undelivered messages
  ## This plugin uses tracking metrics, which ensure messages are read to
  ## outputs before acknowledging them to the original broker to ensure data
  ## is not lost. This option sets the maximum messages to read from the
  ## broker that have not been written by an output.
  ##
  ## This value needs to be picked with awareness of the agent's
  ## metric_batch_size value as well. Setting max undelivered messages too high
  ## can result in a constant stream of data batches to the output. While
  ## setting it too low may never flush the broker's messages.
  # max_undelivered_messages = 1000

  ## Maximum amount of time the consumer should take to process messages. If
  ## the debug log prints messages from sarama about 'abandoning subscription
  ## to [topic] because consuming was taking too long', increase this value to
  ## longer than the time taken by the output plugin(s).
  ##
  ## Note that the effective timeout could be between 'max_processing_time' and
  ## '2 * max_processing_time'.
  # max_processing_time = "100ms"

  ## The default number of message bytes to fetch from the broker in each
  ## request (default 1MB). This should be larger than the majority of
  ## your messages, or else the consumer will spend a lot of time
  ## negotiating sizes and not actually consuming. Similar to the JVM's
  ## `fetch.message.max.bytes`.
  # consumer_fetch_default = "1MB"

  ## Data format to consume.
  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "influx"

Metrics

The plugin accepts arbitrary input and parses it according to the data_format setting. There is no predefined metric format.

Example Output

There is no predefined metric format, so output depends on plugin input.